それは生化学や遺伝子工学の変化が始まりでしょうか。あるいは記号化、デジタル化がもたらしていくものでしょうか。21世紀の生物としての人の、存在としての人の激しい変化の予兆 でしょうか。見いだされる身体の表現の変化に驚かされます・・・・・・。新しい世代が関知し表現する、
さまざまなジャンルの身体表現を、Project Exhibitionとしてこのプログラムは取り上げています。2000年から始まりシリーズ12回目。
Did it all start with changes in genetic engineering? Or was it genetic encoding and digitalization that started it? Is it a sign that our existence as organisms will change drastically in the 21st century? Whatever the cause, the dramatic changes taking place in the ways today’s artists represent the human body is nothing short of shocking. This exhibit explores works by artists of a new generation that express the body in a variety of media. This is the 12th “Message from the Body” Project Exhibition, which began in 2000.

Yusuke Nishii "The shape of person"

Normally, human beings enhance their abilities by equipping many types of instruments. It's always been this way, and it is now, and always will be. In a way, those equipments help us to become who we are, and they are part of our body, always replaceable. "Human evolution equals to instrument development." The more progress it makes, the less we communicate as animal. Can we stop this? No. Is it bad? No. It's time that we faced our "diminishing body" from deep within, and knew that we human never change no matter how technology develops for better quality of life.

「華々しく咲く花はもちろん、地面の下で渦巻いている根や、菌類に浸食された枝、傷をかばってデコボコになった樹皮etc…。生きものの表現する仕草は、ひとつひとつ、どこをとっても、（時々とても不器用に見えることがあったとしても）とても愛しくて魅力的（チャーミング）なもの。」
日本の代表的な花。桜をテーマに即興のライブドローイングを行います。
Sakura – flower of Japan.
Her proudly bloomed flowers, her spiral roots underground, her branches eaten by microbes, her rough surface of bark that heals her own damages…Everything she shows us is ever so loving and charming (though some might seem imperfect).

I’ll be drawing her right before you.

Maho Nishomura
日本の愛知県在住。イラストレーション作家。
イメージの連鎖反応を微細に描き留めることで生まれる有機的な世界をテーマにした作品制作。
近年は、「描く過程そのものが表現したいことそのもの」という思いが強く、ライブドローイング、リクエストドローイングといったパフォーマンスにも取り組んでいる。
Born in Nagoya 1981, currently resides in Aichi, Japan. Illustration artist. She depicts “world of organics” by illustrating detailed “chains of reactions”. Lately she’s into “process is art” sort of thing. She performs “live-drawing”, as well as “drawing-upon-request”.

Collaborative performance by an art coordinator Sayori and a dancer Shipra who dances around abstract paintings. Both are coming from therapeutic fields of art and dance, believing that creative arts are the most powerful way to express one’s own feelings. Through art and body movements, both try to express abstract idea of "development of life circles.” As life is a constant flow, everything in nature keeps evolving every second without rest, which makes all things unique and beautiful.

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binbinFactory, Satoshi Haga & Rie Fukuzawa

binbinfactory is the name of Satoshi Haga’s performance company. For the past ten years, his fascination with the process of movement has shaped the company’s mission— the exploration and challenge of innovating physical-emotional expression. bin bin factory’s unusual antennae accesses and cultivates the reservoir of energy consciousness underlying universal human experiences. bin bin factory transforms basic ordinariness into alternate, parallel forms, shapes or feelings that are unexpected, poignant and brilliantly witty.

The Apartment ~excerpt from Room 702~

Akiko Furukawa & Friends:
Directed by Akiko Furukawa (Movement; collaborated with the performers).
Performed by Gregory Bruhn, Courtney Jo Drasner, Jenni Hong and Akiko Furukawa
Costume by Akiko Furukawa, Music by Puccini (from Gianni Schicchi), Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The idea: "The man is depressed. He shares an apartment with others who are going through adversities - It's tough. But, they face the adversities despite their anger, pain and sorrow. The man finds himself being inspired by their courage. "

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Naoki Iwakawa, Action Painting with Music

"In my art, I attempt to express a more primal state in which we once lived and in which we will live again. I believe man has an inherent understanding of beauty and truth. I attempt to show these in my art; however, when I paint on a canvas I see that I have fallen short.
"Action painting is another attempt to truly be in the moment. The same state I seek is the same state, which Zen Buddhists seek, an unmediated awareness of existence. Although Zen and action painting may seem very different, they have the same goal. In the process of creating a work paint drips and spills, I move and tire, the canvas sometimes tears and brushes often break. I feel that the untidiness of this truly reflects life.” -Naoki

She released a Japanese-English bilingual poetry book titled “ANTHOLOGY Poems Woven with Lines and Words”. She will be reading her poems while drawing live.

ニシムラマホ
日本の愛知県在住。イラストレーション作家。
イメージの連鎖反応を微細に描き留めることで生まれる有機的な世界をテーマにした作品制作。
近年は、「描く過程そのものが表現したいことそのもの」という思いが強く、ライブドローイング、リクエストドローイングといったパフォーマンスにも取り組んでいる。
Maho Nishomura
Born in Nagoya,1981, currently resides in Aichi, Japan. Illustration artist. She depicts “world of organics” by illustrating detailed “chains of reactions”. Lately she’s into “process is art” sort of thing. She performs “live-drawing”, as well as “drawing-upon-request”.